Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-30
Speech In New York by 4 defender Of
the Chicago Anarchists.
Statistics Of the Life Saving Service
During the Year.
DR.. Parker Highly Paid for His
Eulogy on Beechsr.
The Tables Turned on the Eng lish
Peace delegates.
Ex-Governor st. John on tho Prohi.
bition Prospects. :

NEW YoRx. November 2S.-Cooper UQion
WAS 6lisa to toSoyssaaEir tosnight with
psop3e Who sympAthissd with HE Chicago
Anarchists who vers hanged. The meeting
had been called BY the Trades Federation
and in behalf Of the widows and orphans
OF the Anarcbists recently executed in
Chicago. It was an Anarchist meeting
through and through. There were . red
ribbons and feathers on women, red neck.
ties and hat bands ON men, portraits oi
the hanged Anarchist wers draped in black
and displayed. The police were not pre-
sent in force. but the meeting was not
interrupted. sergius E. Schevitch vas the
orator. In substance he said: 1T ia no
time to cheer. It 10 no time to weep. 1t ia
time to thius. time to get ready f.r action.
1t 10 = memorial We are to celebrate to-
night not in honor OF those who do not
want any expression OF feeling. It il to the
peop'e OF the country. The judicial mur-
der in Chicago wonid have been impossible
even in Rueeia. The men were not hanged
for or me. They we're anged for what they
had
THOUGHT, WRITTEN AND Spoken.
They did not hang Spies AMI the other
Anarchists alone. They hung free speech,
free thought. It il supposed the men were
cranks, were fors. .snsss to whom little at
tention was paid. It il q mistake to sup.
pose their ideas d. not amount to any
thing. A quarter Of a century ago John
Brown, q q tive American, was lynched,
and four years later hall the nation WAS
marching on with hio soul. D'
you want to know tho names 'f
foreigners in this countryf THY are
Jay GoIld, tho Yands rbiIte. the RneselI
Sages. foreigners and not the Ana fchists.
The foreign element who have nothing in
kind with the people are the capt. aIsts.
Their cry WAS law and order fer their pro.
lection for the protection for their own
property. The execution will forever be
handed down a. the worst crime IN your
history. Powflerly and Henry George hav
rlacsd themselves in line with hangmen.
The
oBJECf OF THE TRAGEDY
was to intimidate the advance workers In
labor movements. There was no other
ca use for the murder. You have heard it
said that Anarchists do not belong to this
country. They do not want to belong to
GElS country lucy wv INV uCtN W. ~t''AS VII
der its flag; they have h flag Ut their own.
their red dag. What j. this red flag for
What more noble hearts died than tbs II
authors? What does the red flag mean
It means the blood of humanity. It means
to put stop to the shedding
Of blood; there is blood on that
flag, the blood OF thousands and
millions slaughtered TO- that flag
That bosh about law and order Is on'y
dust that is thrown in the eyes Of the
people. hope It is a habit to send spide
to take down the words ei speakers on the
occasions and what they do not utter.
Let lis stand together: let us be more fierce
in our Language than ever before; let the
blood OF Anarchists cry ont throushont
the world. 1t is our flag. We will raise it;
we will carry it through your streets.' TIE
resolutions were passed in which those
present pledged themselves to support the
widows and orphans OF the hanged Chicago
Anarchists.